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The recent availability of typological databases such as World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) has
spurred investigations regarding its utility for classifying the world's languages, the
stability of typological features in genetic linguistics and typological universals across the language families of the
world. In this paper, we compare typological distances, derived from fifteen vector similarity measures, with family
internal classifications and also lexical divergence. These results are only a first step towards the use of WALS
database in the projection of NLP resources and bootstrapping NLP tools for typologically or genetically similar, yet
resource-poor languages.
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